Over 70% of Moroccan households received cash handouts to cope with Covid 19

Morocco has distributed cash to a little over 70% of Moroccan households to help them cope with the restrictive measures to curb the coronavirus, finance minister said. Morocco has offered 2000 dirhams from March to June to workers affiliated to the pension fund CNSS and up to 1200 to households, whose main provider is working […]

Morocco: Dutch man nabbed in Marrakech for counterfeiting foreign passports

Marrakech security forces in coordination with internal security directorate (DGSN) have arrested a Dutch national suspected for foreign passport forgery. The man, 48, indulged in proposing fake foreign passports to his clients. He even received 100,000 Dirhams ($10,350) for the service, according to the DGSN. The inspection of the suspect’s apartment enabled the seizure of […]

UN Chief honors fallen Moroccan Blue Helmet

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has posthumously awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal to 1st Corporal Karim Temara, a member of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, during a ceremony held lately at UN Headquarters in New York. Temara died in 2024 while serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The […]